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ArticleMembranes2020

Microtube Array Membrane (MTAM)-Based Encapsulated Cell Therapy for Cancer Treatment.

Chee Ho Chew, Chih-Wei Lee, Wan-Ting Huang, Li-Wei Cheng, Amanda Chen, Tsai-Mu Cheng, Yen-Lin Liu, Chien-Chung Chen

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Article in Membranes, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Chee Ho ChewGraduate Institute of Biomedical Materials & Tissue Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Xinyi District, Taipei 11031, Taiwan.
Chih-Wei LeeGraduate Institute of Biomedical Materials & Tissue Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Xinyi District, Taipei 11031, Taiwan.
Wan-Ting HuangGraduate Institute of Biomedical Materials & Tissue Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Xinyi District, Taipei 11031, Taiwan.
Li-Wei ChengGraduate Institute of Biomedical Materials & Tissue Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Xinyi District, Taipei 11031, Taiwan.
Amanda ChenDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Tsai-Mu ChengThe PhD Program for Translational Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 11052, Taiwan.
Yen-Lin LiuDepartment of Pediatrics, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei 11052, Taiwan.
Chien-Chung ChenGraduate Institute of Biomedical Materials & Tissue Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Xinyi District, Taipei 11031, Taiwan.
Taipei Medical University · TWTaipei Medical University Hospital · TWUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology Taiwan MOST106-2221-E-038-016Taipei Medical University (TMU-NTUT) NTUT-TMU-102-08
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The treatment of cancer has evolved significantly in recent years with a strong focus on immunotherapy. Encapsulated Cell Therapy (ECT) for immunotherapy-based anti-cancer treatment is a unique niche within this landscape, where molecules such as signaling factors and antibodies produced from cells are encapsulated within a vehicle, with a host amount of benefits in terms of treatment efficacy and reduced side effects. However, traditional ECTs generally lie in two extremes; either a macro scale vehicle is utilized, resulting in a retrievable system but with limited diffusion and surface area, or a micro scale vehicle is utilized, resulting in a system that has excellent diffusion and surface area but is unretrievable in the event of side effects occurring, which greatly compromises the biosafety of patients. In this study we adapted our patented and novel electrospun Polysulfone (PSF) Microtube Array Membranes (MTAMs) as a 'middle' approach to the above dilemma, which possess excellent diffusion and surface area while being retrievable. Hybridoma cells were encapsulated within the PSF MTAMs, where they produced CEACAM6 antibodies to be used in the suppression of cancer cell line A549, MDA-MB-468 and PC 3 (control).

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cancerelectrospinningencapsulated cell therapy (ECT)hybridomamicrotube array membrane (MTAM)

Identifiers

PMID32357523
PMCPMC7281484
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